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Crime and Violins

An abandoned series.

Sebastian Arcady is a vain, eccentric violinist, with a genius for observation and deduction, who thinks he’s the next Sherlock Holmes.

Phineas Zene is a washed-up, pragmatic cellist, with a punch like daylight bursting through your skull, who doesn’t want to be the next Watson.

They live and breathe classical music in a way that makes obsessive classical musicians think they’re crazy.

They solve mysteries.

Crime and Violins
Eccentric crimes solved by even more eccentric musicians.
— contains some harsh language —

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Crime and Violins was the first serial that I ever read on a regular basis - I shot through the (at the time) tiny archive, then waited with baited breath for each new chapter.

C&V takes advantage of the serial format in its tiny, bite-sized chapters that only take moments to read, yet always leave you feel satisfied . . . except in those moments where you are screaming for more, needing to know what happens next.

It’s a very deliberate and unashamed homage to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes - but it isn’t an aspect that takes over your enjoyment, simply another layer to the experience.

The characters are wonderful - Zene and his world experience, Arcady with his . . . Arcady-ness. They’re complete opposites, yet as opposites so often so, complement each other, as neither are complete.

It’s well worth your time, Arachne is a talented writer who doesn’t fail to deliver.

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